Lost

Today's column about Kaswella Anderson, who went missing as a 13-year-old in 2002, raises an issue almost unbearable to parents and complicated for police:

Imagine your daughter (or son, for that matter) vanishes as an eighth-grader, emerges six years later far from home, and you are told by authorities that your child, now a legal adult, wants no contact with you - and you are offered no details about what happened in the ensuing years.

Andrea Killins, Kaswella's mother, says she might be able to accept the situation if at least she had some answers; but for now, at least, none seem to be coming.